Improved sheep-wash



condition, free them from scab and vermin, and keep the wool clear ofvermin.

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EDWARD B. BOOTH, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. Letters Patent No, 73,225,dated January 14, 1868.

IMPROVED SHEEP-WASH.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, EDWARD B. BOOTH, of the city of St. Louis, county ofSt. Louis, and State of Missouri, have invented a new and usefulSheep-Wash, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The object of my invention is to produce a liquid compound that willkeep the skin of'sheep in a healthy I take one hundred (100) pounds oftobacco, refuse, stems, &c., and boil it in fifty (50) gallons of waterlong enough to produce forty (40) gallons of the extract of" tobacco,which will be from one to six hours, according to'the degree of heat andstrength of the tobacco. While the liquid is hot Iadd to it graduallycommon pulverized chalk, till effervescence ceases. Then, when thismixture is cool, I take one (1) gallon oi tersulphide of calcium,prepared in the usual way, and mix it thoroughly with this.

When the compound is to be applied, one pint must be diluted with onegallon of water, washed with or immersed in it.

As this is equally efiicacious when applied to cattle and other animals,its application to sheep.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is- A sheep-wash composed of the ingredients above named, or theirequivalents.

' EDWD B. BOOTH. Witnesses:

SAML S. Born, HENRY T. CARTER.

and then the sheep I do not intendto limit myself to

